Success is possible only if the speaker articulates the words so as to radiate a
sense of communication transcendently beyond the actual words spoken. And if the
listener is receptive at that same level. The truth does not lie in the words themselves
nor in the concepts they express. Such words are merely signposts pointing to transcendent
reality.

It is important to me to reaffirm the priority that I afford to infinity. During
younger years when I sought God in conventional relative realms of non-transcendent
religiosity, I was advised to begin at the bottom of the ladder and laboriously climb
it. I was assured that eventually my labour, patience and sincerity would be rewarded.
Any leap direct to the Kingdom of God was considered presumptive and dangerous. Thank
God I found my own way, or was blessed to be led in this lifetime, to meditative
wisdom and deeper masters. Every incarnate expression of Soul, every one of us, needs
to realize the infinity of our Being, and to renew that realization continuously
through incarnate life.

In the absence of such realization, a work such as this cannot be understood and
cannot succeed. It is one of the paradoxes that, in order to climb the conventional
ladder, Jacob’s Ladder if you like, the aspirant should seek rather to soar beyond
the top rung, effortlessly if possible and by meditative levitation. Free of the
ladder one may rise, pierce the ultimate, and allow its infinite wisdom to rain down
and effuse the seeker’s search and his life. And if it does, the rain falls not only
on the seeker but on all who witness him in silence. Modern engineers ponder the
mystery of the construction of the pyramids, from base to apex. The answer may lie
above the apex in its apotheosis.

The paradox is that if we achieve such an effortless leap in its fullness, the ladder
disappears, and so does this work and the necessity for both. However, until each
of us achieves enlightenment, we are living in the relative world and continue to
need also the ladder and the work of its climb. Our meditative access to the infinite
remains an essential holistic guide and subtle encouragement.

Working in the relative, the challenge to articulate the ineffable remains. But we
make the meditative attempt at the effortless leap into the Kingdom of God at the
beginning, not at the end, of our search. This allows the reality of Divinity to
be realized at inception, and the glimpse and feel of infinite Grace to be touched
and imbued into our being at origin and carried forward unbroken through life. We
were Divine at origin. It is not as if we are not totally Divine while we climb the
ladder of life’s effort, while we are incarnate and embodied in the relative world.
We do not only achieve Divinity when we eventually reach the summit. We need to remain
aware that we are totally Divine at the bottom of the ladder and at every rung on
its progress. The paradox is that we must realize the destination at the start. Thus
we seek to reconcile the polarity and the paradox. We seek to reconcile the paradox
of intellectual and physical work, with the effortless intuitive revelation and mystical
creative realization.

Passionate and blessed communication takes the hearer from word to word, across stepping
stones. At a walk to begin with and then slowly extending the distance from stone
to stone until the seeker finds himself effortlessly and joyfully leaping from stone
to stone – touching grace in the expanding leap and not in the stone. The prose transforms
to poetry. The prayer elevates to meditation.

And when he rests, the seeker is left without words in the mind, but with memory
and wisdom residual in the heart…and ineffably enriched.